Since Zheng Chenggong has a way to contact Li Fuming quietly, if he wants to contact Cao Bianjiao in the future, it will naturally be the same, and the process does not need to be repeated.

All in all, Li Fuming, whom Zheng Chenggong contacted in the early morning of the second day of March, and Cao Bianjiao, who contacted him in the early morning of the third day of March, both made an appointment to break through to the Beacon Hill Wharf in the early morning of the fourth day of the first month of March to board the ship.

Of course, when it comes to smooth contact, there are still some slight changes in the details. First of all, because the dead soldiers who contacted Cao Bianjiao would not venture out of the city to return to the ship in advance, nor would they have to answer with a sampan.

Therefore, the contact dead soldier who went to Xingshan this time was not led by Zheng Chenggong himself, but by a thousand generals under Zhang Mingzhen.

After these people entered the city, they said that they would have a good time, and they did not give Cao Bianjiao a chance to reply to the letter to discuss. Regardless of whether Cao Bianjiao left or not, they would recuperate in the city for a day, and wait until midnight to go out of the city to Beacon Mountain to escape for their lives, and Cao Bianjiao would follow if he was willing to go.

Zheng Chenggong chose to contact him in person for the first time, but he was just a young man with strong blood and impulsiveness. After doing some things once, you are not so enthusiastic and curious, and there is no need to take risks again and again. After returning to the ship, he listened to Zhang Mingzhen's persuasion.

In addition, in order to win the trust of Cao Bianjiao more quickly and avoid many twists and turns when the city called the door, when Zheng Chenggong returned to the ship from Tashan, Li Fuming also sent a few henchmen who were familiar with Cao Bianjiao to follow Zheng Chenggong first.

Turning around, these people followed the dead soldier who reported the news to make a sampan to Beiwan to grab the beach in the dark and enter Xingshan City, so as to ensure the credibility of the contact.

The work is outside the play, and a lot of thought has been spent on conspiracy and contact before the fight starts, and it can be said that these are the keys to victory or defeat.

On the Tartar side, in fact, it is not completely impossible to expose the conspiracy of the Ming army, they have at least two chances to see the flaws, but unfortunately, human nature always has weaknesses, and the final result becomes unpredictable.

……

The timeline goes back to the second day of the third month, at noon mealtime.

The first time the Tartar army discovered the anomaly, it was actually at this time.

Located in the middle of Tashan and Xingshan, in the key tent of the Chinese army in Beitun Village, the Qing army's white flag lord Azig's subordinate Jia Lazhangjing, Erqiu, was originally devouring the fat leg of mutton.

Erqiu is about forty years old, rough and fat, and unkempt. Even the money rat tail on the back of his head and the beard on his face were sticky and clumped.

The way he eats is also very rude, without chopsticks and spoons, just holding a stick and bone in one hand and a knife in the other.

The leg of mutton is directly pinched and gnawed on the bone, and only the fat and boneless sheep's tail oil is cut and eaten with a knife.

If modern people see this kind of scene of inhaling calorie bombs like a lifeless storm, they will definitely doubt their lives.

However, if you are deceived by Er'er's appearance and think that he is just a piggy with a fat brain, it is a big mistake.

At the very least, he is also a powerful and agile fat man, not necessarily cunning, but at least he has the keen sense of battle like a beast.

When Er'er forced him to eat, his subordinates generally didn't dare to disturb him with trivial things. When he had almost eaten and was in a good mood, a Niu Lu under his command came to report recklessly:

"Master...... Last night, a team of scouts sent by Choushi to inspect the vicinity of Tower Hill has not returned and has been postponed for a long time. The minions sent someone to look for it again, but there was still no news. ”

Er'er twitched his beard, picked up a bamboo skewer of roast sheep, and asked in a fierce tone while picking his teeth, "When should you come back?" ”

He replied suddenly: "It is said that there is a round trip every three hours, and it is time to return at the end of the hour." The slave was afraid that it would be a trivial delay, so he waited for an extra hour and asked people to find it.

As a result, now the second batch has returned, saying that there is no abnormality around Tashan City, and there is no sign of the Southern Barbarians going out. ”

Erqiu thought for a moment: "Those southern barbarians haven't moved for months, shouldn't they." Pick up more people in the afternoon, and don't go to the beach, lest you be discovered by the barbarians in the city.

Bypass from the back of the mountain in the west of the city, detour back to the south of the city, set up ambushes along the way, and block the main road from Tashan to Taqiao. Let's see if the barbarians have any plans to break through by land, and if so, they will just intercept and kill!

Supposedly, if our scouts really died at the hands of the barbarians who left the city, those barbarians probably also wanted to break through. If the exploration goes smoothly and is rushed out by those pioneers, there may be more people who want to escape in the future. If it's just a temptation, maybe after killing our scout, we'll go back to the city to report the news, so let's be careful. ”

That Niu Lu thought for a while and cautiously reminded: "Master, did you say that it was not a barbarian from the city, but a barbarian sent by Wu Sangui from Shanhaiguan to contact him?" If it's Wu Sangui's people, should we send someone to the racecourse and report to the flag owner? ”

Erqiu thought for a moment: "There is such a possibility, but then the matter will be big!" You group of waste, a team of scouts were all killed, and they didn't escape alive to report the news, do you have a lot of face?

You dog minion, you want to stab me directly at the master, and I can't be embarrassed! Send two Niu Lu to test it in a while! If there is a conspiracy and a large army is dispatched, it is not too late to bother the master! ”

It is obviously the safest thing to do for the overall situation to report the slightest small matter immediately.

But human nature has weaknesses, and Erqiu is also an arrogant person, and he doesn't want this kind of embarrassing thing to know directly to Azig, so he always wants to figure it out by his own strength first, and cover the lid for a while.

If you can't figure it out today, it's never too late to report it.

And he still has a thought in his heart: I have been fighting with the southern barbarians of the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and the Ming bureaucracy is bloated and the decision-making is slow, which is already well known to the generals at all levels in the Qing Dynasty.

If Wu Sangui makes a move, maybe Wu Sangui's own people haven't moved yet, and Master Azig has already gotten the news from the emperor first-

Before the decisive battle of Songjin last year, the emperor's news was very well-informed. Hong Chengchou didn't finally make up his mind to fight a decisive battle with the emperor, and the emperor already knew that Hong Chengchou must pursue a quick battle.

Because the emperor had already spied on the rear of Beijing, there were two trolls Zhang Ruoqi and Ma Shaoyu in the staff department of the Southern Barbarian Army, who were specially responsible for picketing military attachés for cowardice and dereliction of duty.

In front of the stupid emperor Chongzhen of the Southern Barbarians, these two trolls frantically attacked Hong Chengchou for raising his own respect, working hard for his teachers, and cowardly the enemy, which made Chongzhen so angry that he gave a strict edict to death, forcing Hong Chengchou to attack quickly, if Hong Chengchou did not take risks, he would be questioned!

(Note: These two trolls surrendered to Li Zicheng as soon as Chongzhen died, and two months later the Qing troops entered Beijing and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and finally Shunzhi remembered the credit for forcing Hong Chengchou to send people to the head when they stirred up the, and Zhang Ruoqi also became a provincial political envoy.) ）

The Southern Barbarians are all such waste dog civil officials, how can it happen that "Wu Sangui has made a move, but the Qing Dynasty's fine work has not spied on it"!

All this prompted Erqiu to prepare to rely on his own strength to solve this small accident first, and if he couldn't solve it in a day or two, it would not be too late to report to the flag owner.

……

The Qing army's order to prohibit it was still very powerful, and of course, Er's decision-making was immediately and unreservedly implemented.

In the afternoon of the same day, Er'er forced two Niu Lu to set up an ambush in the southeast of Tashan and on the way to Gaoqiao in Tashan.

At dusk, Li Fuming's Yangquan battalion garrisoned Li Tongtai, so he quietly wore Li Fuming's clothes and armor, war horses, hid a small Li Fuming banner, took two hundred horses, one hundred cavalry, one person and two horses, opened the south gate of Tashan, and left without dust.

They deliberately chose to go out of the city at dusk, also in order to give the enemy time to react, to create the illusion that "the cavalry of the Ming army had a test to go out of the city last night, and they were damaged after encountering the blockade, and they lost the opportunity, so they hid back again, and now they are taking advantage of the fact that the sky is getting dark again, so they will repeat their old tricks".

And this design does make sense - the day before was out of the city in the early morning, and it wouldn't be long before dawn, but this time it was out of the city in the evening, and it was possible to hide in the dark all night, and even if it was discovered tomorrow morning, it was estimated that it would run out for at least seventy or eighty miles.

Everything is quite in line with the logic of the outcasts.

Before Li Tongtai left the city, he and a hundred warriors finally had a full meal of wine and meat to strengthen their courage, and their hearts were also burning with the idea of "running 260 miles safely and escaping back to Shanhaiguan", and their desire to survive was very strong.

When I first left the city, I was still nervous, lest I be discovered by the Tartars immediately. But after more than ten miles out of the city, and the city wall gradually disappeared on the horizon behind him, Li Tongtai relaxed a little.

After walking for more than an hour, it was almost forty miles, and there was a little rest in the middle, and as it was dark, Li Tongtai was thinking about where to rest at night, and then continued to gallop.

However, just as we walked more than half the way between Tashan and Takaqiao, we passed through a section of the hillside on both sides and there was no way to go around, and the two sides of the hillside suddenly became full of torches and shouting horns.

"Tartar ambush! Brothers, rush with me! When Li Tongtai heard the continuous sound of the horn, he knew that he was in an ambush.

The terrain of the western Liaoning corridor is narrow, one side is Yanshan, one side is the sea, and there are several Yanshan slopes that can be extended to the seaside, there is no road to detour, and the cavalry can not abandon their horses to climb the mountain from time to time, and they are prepared to intercept them, and it is still easy to be ambushed.

The Tartars did not have the sound of golden drums, and it seems that there were not many of them, and they should all be cavalry, so they did not carry drum carts, so they could only let people brag on horseback to launch an attack.

"The brethren fought with the Tartars! Break through and rush out to return to Shanhaiguan alive! If you can't rush out, you'll have to die! This group of Shanxi cavalry also aroused the fierce heart, at this moment they were not fighting for the general soldier, but for their own lives had to fight to the death.

Only by breaking through can there be a way to live!

"Kill!" The cavalry of the Ming army didn't care about it, and they didn't care about the hillside next to the road, and the Qing army rangers stood and released arrows, the Ming army just wanted to move forward and kill all the enemies blocking the road in front!

"Click! Quack! Poof! "Steel spears, spears and sabers, fighting to the death to greet the person opposite, the sound of sharp blades into the flesh is endless.

Even the dying screams seemed to be suppressed for a few seconds before they burst out.

A hedge, that is, more than ten horsemen fell off their horses heavily, and the Ming cavalry and Tartar cavalry had it.

"Are these Southern Barbarians very brave? I'm afraid it's really Li Fuming's elite family? Hurry up! Fearful Slash! The master has long said that he will reward him, kill a barbarian general soldier, and Niu Lu will be directly promoted to the armor! The creeps are directly promoted to the bull record! ”

Ru Hu, who was sent by Er'er to wipe his buttocks, was trying to wash away the shame of his scouts being wiped out by the barbarians this morning, and when he saw Li Tongtai fighting bravely, he was not surprised and happy, and firmly believed that he had caught a big fish.

He and another Niu Lu each had less than 200 horses, adding up to 3560 horses, while the Ming cavalry on the opposite side was only more than 100 horses, and more than three times the strength could not be taken!

The cavalry of the Qing army also moved forward one after another, fighting bravely to the death, not afraid of the Ming army's desperate charge.

Both sides were dressed in iron cotton armor and were well armoured.

The saber can only provoke the bloody sound of entering the flesh when it is slashed at the door and wrist, and the sound of cracking silk and the twisting and rubbing of tooth acid metal can only be caused by slashing in other places. Only the full charge of the spear can penetrate the flesh and directly stab the person from the horse.

"Death to the Tartars!" Li Tongtai was dressed in satin cotton-lined iron armor, which looked very conspicuous in the slight firelight, because it was Li Fuming's armor, which was worn by senior generals at the general level.

It was precisely because of this set of armor that he was like a magnet to attract the intensive siege of countless Tartar cavalry who were crazy and greedy for promotion, and he had been slashed three or five times in a short time.

Fortunately, he was agile and could always avoid spears and counter-kill the enemy who rushed over, and as for the slashing of the saber, under the protection of this fine steel armor, there was no major problem.

He shouted a fierce battle, and in a short time he killed seven or eight Tartar cavalrymen, and several of his own soldiers next to him also died one after another to cover him or block the sword.

It's a pity that even though people have excellent steel armor, the war horses are not so comprehensively protected, and after the bloody battle, Li Tongtai's horses finally threw him off because of several swords in a row, and he lost too much blood and neighed.

"Kill this barbarian commander!" The cavalry of the Qing army became more and more excited, and rushed up like bloodthirsty jackals to grab people's heads.

Niu Lu Zhangjing, who had been watching the battle from the side, was reckless, and rushed up when he saw this, lest he be robbed of the credit by another Niu Lu. His marksmanship was exquisite, and he made a slight detour, and a riding spear pierced Li Tongtai's heart to the extreme.

Li Tongtai heard the sound of breaking wind behind him, turned around again and again, it was impossible to completely avoid it, and in a hurry he had to twist his body slightly to avoid the vital point of the chest and abdomen, but he was still stabbed in the side ribs by a spear, fortunately, the iron armor and ribs deflected the blade, only pierced the muscles under the armpit, and penetrated from behind.

He thought that this shot would definitely be able to nail the Ming army commander to death, but he didn't expect that the other party avoided the vital point and was penetrated through the muscles on his side, and he became more and more fierce, and he could not retreat but advance, taking advantage of the approaching of the two sides, the saber was raised high, and he slashed towards the door in front of him.

The reckless riding spear was still stuck in the opponent's iron armor and muscles, and he couldn't pull it out for a while, and he forgot to let go, so he was struck in the face by a knife, and he was killed on the spot and fell off the horse.

The cavalry of the Qing army was also shocked when they saw that the master of Niu Lu was killed, and in order to avoid responsibility, they frantically stabbed Li Tongtai with a spear.

When Li Tongtai was shot by Lu Lu, he knew that today was over. He didn't want to die too much, so he couldn't help but be in a hurry, and yelled: "I am Li Fuming, the chief soldier of the Ming Dynasty, how could I die at the hands of a little bastard!" ”

He drew his saber and posed as if he was killing himself, but instead of wiping his neck, he slashed it on his face, and immediately blood splattered, and he was killed as quickly as possible.

The cavalry of the Qing army stabbed him for a while, piercing him like a hedgehog, and confirmed that he was dead, so he began to search for the corpse, and by the way, he searched for the corpses of other Ming soldiers who died in battle.

As for the dozens of cavalry of the Ming army who rode away, they didn't have time to chase them, dozens of small soldiers, they fled if they fled, and the big fish were caught.

The other picked up the cheap Niu Lu Zhangjing, and after a while, he got the good news from his subordinates: "The master is very happy!" From this barbarian's personal soldiers and horses, Li Fuming's banner was searched! This is definitely Li Fuming! Congratulations to the master on his ascension to Jiala! ”

That Niu Lu laughed, picked out a soldier who had killed the enemy the most fiercely just now, and who had indeed made up for Li Tongtai, and was also very good at patting horses, patted him on the shoulder, and said:

"You kid is not bad, it was you who stabbed this Li Fuming to death with your own hands for the last shot, and this guy was killed for his greed, and you kid is not Niu Lu when you turn around!"

"Li Fuming" was stabbed so many times before he died, and another Niu Lu had already died with him, who made up the knife to get a fatal shot, and it wasn't he who had the final say?

Here, he got the disfigured head of "Li Fuming" by himself, took off his armor and flag, and sent him back to Beitun to hand it over to Jiala'er to decide.

As for the cavalry of the Qing army after the war, they naturally continued to set up cards on the spot, and the order they received before was to stick here, and now although they killed a group of Ming cavalry, it was impossible to accept it immediately, and they had to continue to carry out the order.

Because of the relationship between intercepting the fake Li Fuming, Zheng Chenggong's departure that night became more and more dark, and he was not found in the slightest.

In the middle of the night, Erqiu in Beitun got the good news of his subordinates, and when he heard that he had killed Li Fuming, he was also overjoyed, and immediately ordered another Niu Lu to go to the south, and continued to hold the main road between Gaoqiao and Tashan, he was already sure that Li Fuming's troops must have eaten up the food in the city, and could only break through to the south by land at any cost.

As for the Beitun side, the task of cutting off the communication between Tashan and Xingshan is not so important.

But the order of the king of Azig could not be left unfulfilled, so it was still necessary to leave a little one or two cows.

On the third day of March, there was no accident.

Li Fuming, who was still hiding in Tashan City, actually didn't know that Erqiu had adjusted his deployment, and now between him and Cao Bianjiao, there were less than 500 Tartar cavalry watching. Only these 500 cavalry could support the Qing garrison at the Beacon Hill wharf within a distance of 30 miles.

However, regardless of whether the commanders of the Ming army knew about the enemy's deployment or not, in the middle of the night of the third day of the first month of March, they had to go out of the city, and quietly touch the Beacon Hill Wharf dozens of miles outside the city.

Cao Bianjiao had to walk more than 20 miles longer than Li Fuming because the road was farther, so he had to start a little earlier and a half.

At the right time, Cao Bianjiao took advantage of the Tartar's inattention and left Xingshan City in the dark. At the end of the hour, Li Fuming also reorganized his troops and set off, leaving only a few cavalry soldiers to stay in the city after the break, in case the army went away, he set fire to the city and burned all the materials that could not be taken away, so as not to fund the enemy.

Only these soldiers, who carried out the task of setting fire after the break, could be assigned the few remaining horses in order to catch up with the main force of the infantry after setting fire.

……

Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen, who had been adrift for two days on the Bohai Sea and far from the coastline, also did not know how well Li Fuming and Cao Bianjiao were implementing their plans.

They only know that they must do their part according to the agreement. At the end of the ugly hour on the fourth day of the first month of March, the Ming army's naval fleet finally approached the sea near Beacon Mountain.

Zheng Chenggong personally held the telescope and looked in the direction of the pier. There are still a lot of torches on the pier, it seems that after the Tatars occupied Beacon Hill, they have been making good use of this pier, and the daily care of the defenders is quite strict.

"Hongyi cannon ready! Aim at the areas where there is fire, don't open fire yet, let the boat rush to the beach, and try to sneak ashore as quietly as possible. If you are discovered and hear the noise of the enemy, you will listen to my orders and open fire decisively! ”

Zheng Chenggong carefully instructed the gunners on the ship. Some of these gunners were brought from the Zheng family, and they knew the roots, the Zheng family had been pirates for twenty years, and they were still very experienced in using Hongyi cannons.